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Thought For the Day: Those Who Insist On the Dignity of Their Office Show They Have Not Deserved It
“Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.” -Baltasar Gracian, philosopher and writer (8 Jan 1601-1658)
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Tagged Baltasar Gracian, Deserve, Dignity, Insist, Office, Show, Those, Thought For the Day
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Life Worth Living
Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts, Adversity, Belief and Love, Blindness, Bliss, Brith, Challenge, Chance, Cherish, Child of God, Circrumstance, Clasped, Destiny, Dignity, Discerned, Done, Driven, Embrace, Faith, Fall, Family, Forgiving, Gaze, God, God Above, God First, God's, God's Favor, Grace, Grown In Faith, Guided, Hands, Happiness, Heaven, Heavenly Host, Holds, Humility, Integrity, Learned, Legacy, Lessons, Letter, Life, Life Worth Living, Live, Living, Living These Moments, Lord's Face, Love, Love and Kindness, Mad, Mean To Me, Most, My Best Treasure, My Measure, Our Battle, Our Legacy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Purpose Filled Life, Rattle, Recall, Rise Above, Son, Steward, Thanks, Thanks Be To God, This World, To All, Treat Others, True, Waking Moments, Walk Our Walk, World, Worth
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Wishes of Gray (Thoughts On My Birthday)
Wishes of Gray (Thoughts On My Birthday)by Michael DoyleIn all of my wishes of grayToday is just another dayI’m another year olderBut no less the bolderCreated in my confessionIs my long ago connectionThat I’ll never be older than I feelWith … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmed, Another Year Older, Be Their Best, Best, Both Feet Grounded, Bury Me, Capability, Catch As Catch Can, Closer To Death, Confession, Connection, Create, Daugthers, Death, Deeply, Dignity, Done My Best, Door, Each Breath, Each Day, Encourage, Face, Feel, God's Will, Gray, Guessing, Heaven, Hell, Hesitation, Ignore, Instill, Integrity, Just Another Day, Keep Faith, Keep It Real, Knocking, Lesson, Life Is Lived, Life's Lessons, Live Life Fully, Look Back, Loved Ones, Loved Them, Loving Eyes, Measure, My Birthday, Never Forget, No Goodbyes, No Less Bolder, No Time, Older, On His Side, Passed the Test, Poetry and Poems, Preciousness, Regret, Satisfied, Say This, See You Later, Sigh, Stumble, Taught, There Is No Such Thing, Thoughts, To My Last Breath, Today, Treasure, Truly Matters, When It's Time It's Time, Wishes, Witty Reply, Wounded Pride
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What Is Jeopardy?
What Is Jeopardy?by Michael DoyleIt’s a strange thing, pop culture’s popularityI, among the many, revered moments of JeopardyPredictably catchy theme played on hesitationAs each of us hoped we just might have the questionThat matched the answer showing up on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Trebek, Angel, Answer, Best of the Show, Bid, Board, Coax, Confess, Dignity, Fact, Final Jeopardy, Forward, Full Worth, Glow, Gracious, Handled It, Harsh, Heartfelt, Hestitation, Host, I Cried, Know, Life, Match, My Life, Mystery, Next, North, Obsess, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Popularity, Question, Quiet, Revered, Shadow, Show, Sigh, Star, Stoic, Them, Warm Heart, What is Jeopardy, What Is Life For?
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The Rise and Fall of Boethius
The Rise and Fall of Boethiusby Michael DoyleGraven images are made and meant to saveWhen Christianity met Plato’s caveOffering more than shadows on the wallA philosophical bend had come to callChrist was both the Father and the SonJoined with Wisdom … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Beleived, Belief, Blasphemy, Boethius, Brave Hearts, Call, Christ, Christianity, Constantine, Constantinople, Control, Convert, Created, Creator, Cruelty, Decency, Different, Dignity, Diocletian, Dispute, Divinity, Doing Good, East, Enemy, Fabricated, Fall, False Cries, Fatal Suppression, Father, Fight, Forbearance, Good Heart, Good Man, Good Measure, Goths, Grace, Graven Image, Hands, Heritage, Ill Repute, Justice, Legacy, Loss, Miracle, Nation, Patronage, Philosophy, Photograph, Plato's Cave, Poem, Poetry, Propserity, Quest, Reformation, Repression, Rise and Fall, Roman Empire, Romans, Save, Shadow, Sign of the Cross, Sonic Gems, Surrender, Temper, Testimony, Theodoric, Tolerance, Treason, Trinity, Triune, Understood, Victory, Wall, Western Roman Empire, Wisdom, Works
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A Vacation In the Reflective
A Vacation In the Reflectiveby Michael DoyleIt seems to me that there’s one thingCovid has brought and its the thrivingThat comes in knowing it’s not really destinationGiving us the best of our family vacationIt does not hurt in thinking locationBut, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambience, Architecture, Beauty, Billion, Blown Ego, Candid, Catch the Light, Collect, Contrast, Covid, Creative, Curves, Dawn, Day, Death's Embrace, Destination, Difference, Differently, Dignity, Dingy, Draw, Early To rise, Edges, Eloquent, Exact, Familiar, Family, Family Vacation, Feel, Floor, Focus, Found, Grey, Handholding, Highest Degree, Hurt, Images, Inside, Intimacy, Intricate, Just Right, Know, Lattice, Life, Linger, Location, Lunacy, Making the Best, Marble, Measuring Ages, Moments, Mt. Rushmore, New Angle, Opportunity, Perspective, Photo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Real, Reflect, Remind, Restrict, Reverence, Said, Seems, Share, Situation, Sky, Snapshot, Spin, Standard Image, Statue of Liberty, Stiff As A Board, Surprise, Texture, Thoughtful Expression, Thrive, Too Big, Top Down View, Trip of the Shutter, Twilight, Vacation, Visual, Whole Other World, World, Wounded Pride
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A Wolf Keeps Watch
A Wolf Keeps Watchby Michael DoyleLike a wolf into a flock of sheepTheir troubled souls, he would keepFor he was a reformed wolf standing guard against the enemyAnd there were questions of one’s dignityPoints of contention still must be proved … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Blur, Blush, Breath, Buriedd, Contention, Corruption, Craw, Defile, Determined, Devil, Dignity, Enemy, Evidence, Eyes, Fall, Flock of Sheep, Forgotten, Giving Ground, God, Guard, Guilty, Harder Than Death, Head of Doubt, Holy Man, Hostiles, Hustle, Innocent Child, Keep, Last, Love, Mumbles, Obedience, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Point of View, Pray, Providence, Questions, Random Thought, Recall, Reformed, Rotten, Safe, Shake, Shiver, Side Hustle, Silent, Sold, Solid, Soul, Street, Survivors, Suspicion, Tale, Tears, Told, Touch, Trace, Troubled Souls, True, Truth, Under, Understood, Watch, Wollf, Wounded Heart
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Thought For the Day: We Stand At the Crossroads of Freedom. One Road Leads To Greater Freedom and Opportunity and the Other Road Leads To Socialism and Decline
“We stand at a crossroads of freedom. Before us lie two paths: One based on the dignity and worth of every individual, and the other on the growing control of the state. One road leads to greater freedom and opportunity, … Continue reading
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Tagged Crossroads, Decline, Dignity, Freedom, Growing Control, Individual, Mike Pence, Opportunity, Other Road, Socialism, Stand, State, Thought For the Day, Two Paths, We, Worth
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On Being Indigenous In the 21st Century
On Being Indigenous In the 21st Centuryby Michael DoyleIn this world of the modern ageWhen most wish to appear a wise sageIt is pithy to posture and sayIn that pseudo-intellectual wayThat the indigenous follow Mother Nature’s wayThough if you were … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Amazonia, America, Ask Us, Blame, Boundaries, China, Coffee, Community, Continuity, Corrupt, Cultivation, Definition, Desire, Dignity, Distinguished, Diversity, DNA, Empires, Encode, Endure, Europe, Exclusion, Explanation, Extremes, Family, Finger Pointing, Flags, Forfeit, Grit, Havoc, Heads, History, Identity, Inclusion, Indigenous, Knowing, Language, Less, Limited, Marginalized, Modern Age, Modern Life, Modern World, Mother Nature, Native Tongues, New Nation, Peoples, Percaption, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Posture, Poverty, Power, Pseudo-Intellectual, Sage, Same, Save, Skill, Slash and Burn, Soul, Sovereignty, Stain, Strife, Surrender, Symbolic, Teeth, Thinking, Tribes, Vulnerability, Wise, World War Two
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